aggregation

English

Etymology

From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

aggregation (countable and uncountable, plural aggregations)

1. The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
2. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
3. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
4. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
5. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
6. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
   • 2002, Kirk Knoernschild, edited by Addison-Wesley Professional, Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process‎:

     The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.

7. (linguistics) A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.

Antonyms

• disgregation
• disaggregation

Derived terms

• aggregational
• aggregation number
• antiaggregation
• autoaggregation
• bootstrap aggregation
• coaggregation
• deaggregation
• heteroaggregation
• homoaggregation
• hypoaggregation
• immunoaggregation
• macroaggregation
• microaggregation
• misaggregation
• nanoaggregation
• overaggregation
• preaggregation
• reaggregation
• state of aggregation
• superaggregation
• thermoaggregation

Related terms

• gregariousness
• gregarization

Translations

act of aggregating, or state of being aggregated

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: yhdistäminen (fi), kokoaminen (fi), koostaminen (fi) French: agrégation (fr) f, aggrégation (fr) f (archaic) Persian: تجمع (fa) (tajamo') Polish: agregacja (pl) f Portuguese: agregação f Romanian: agregare (ro) f Russian: скопле́ние (ru) n (skoplénije), собира́ние (ru) n (sobiránije) Swedish: aggregering c

collection into a mass or sum

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: yhdistäminen (fi), kokoaminen (fi), koostaminen (fi) French: please add this translation if you can Polish: agregacja (pl) f Portuguese: agregação f Romanian: agregare (ro) f Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije) Swedish: aggregering c

collection of particulars

Armenian: զանգված (hy) (zangvac) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kooste (fi) French: ar (fr) m, agrégation (fr) f, aggrégation (fr) f (archaic) German: Aggregation (de) f, Ansammlung (de) f, Anhäufung (de) f Swedish: aggregering c

aggregate

Armenian: զանգված (hy) (zangvac) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: keräymä, aggregaatti (fi), kooste (fi) French: please add this translation if you can Polish: agregat (pl) m Russian: агрега́т (ru) m (agregát) Swedish: aggregering c, aggregat (sv) n

summarizing multiple routes into one route

Chinese: Mandarin: 聚合 (zh) (jùhé) Finnish: kooste (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Aggregation (de) f Indonesian: agregasi (id) Russian: агрега́ция (ru) f (agregácija) Swedish: aggregering c

object composition

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: koostaminen (fi) French: agrégation (fr) German: Aggregation (de) f